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The Betrothed by Alessandro Manzoni, Jonathan Keates Italys greatest novel and a masterpiece of world literature, The Betrothed chronicles the unforgettable romance of Renzo and Lucia, who endure tyranny, war, famine, and plague to be together.Published in 1827 but set two centuries earlier, against the tumultuous backdrop of seventeenth-century Lombardy during the Thirty Years War, The Betrothed is the story of two peasant lovers who want nothing more than to marry. Their region of northern Italy is under Spanish occupation, and when the vicious Spaniard Don Rodrigo blocks their union in an attempt to take Lucia for himself, the couple must struggle to persevere against his plots—which include false charges against Renzo and the kidnapping of Lucia by a robber baron called the Unnamed—while beset by the hazards of war, bread riots, and a terrifying outbreak of bubonic plague. First and foremost a love story, the novel also weaves issues of faith, justice, power, and truth into a sweeping epic in the tradition of Ivanhoe, Les Misérables, and War and Peace. Groundbreakingly populist in its day and hugely influential to succeeding generations, Alessandro Manzonis masterwork has long been considered one of Italys national treasures.Translated by Archibald Colquhoun FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Author Biography ALESSANDRO MANZONI, a revered poet, novelist, and statesman, was born in Milan in 1785 and died in 1873. His masterpiece, I promessi sposi–The Betrothed–was groundbreaking for replacing conventional antiquated rhetorical forms with expressive and accessible prose. His innovative style won him a broad audience and powerfully influenced the Italian writers who succeeded him. About the Introducer: JONATHAN KEATESs works include the short story collection Allegro Postillions and the novel The Strangers Gallery. He is the biographer of Handel, Purcell, and Stendhal, and is well known as a reviewer and writer on Italian culture and history. He teaches at the City of London School and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.About the Translator: ARCHIBALD COLQUHOUN (1912-1964) studied at Oxford and the Royal College of Art and went to Italy to paint in the 1930s. In 1940 he became acting director of the British Institute in Naples and served as an intelligence officer during the war. He translated Giuseppi di Lampedusas masterpiece, The Leopard, for Everymans, and in 1954 wrote a biography of Manzoni. Review “This is not just a book; it offers consolation to the whole of humanity.” —Giuseppe Verdi “[Manzoni is] the only Italian literary figure whom his countrymen consider worthy of being mentioned in the same breath as Dante . . . It is almost impossible to accept this book as a first novel. Through the virtuosity with which its creator deploys and refines his raw materials, the story of Renzo and Lucia . . . consistently transcends its considerable potential for sentimentality . . . The mélange of tones, styles and methods within the book makes the experience of reading it one of the most rewarding—and simultaneously most challenging—in nineteenth-century fiction.”—from the Introduction by Jonathan Keates Excerpt from Book Excerpted from the introduction In the summer of 1940 the Dante scholar and Cambridge research fellow Uberto Limentani found himself joining over a thousand so-called enemy aliens being deported from Britain to Canada on the converted cruise liner Arandora Star. Victims of Winston Churchills notoriously ill-judged order to collar the lot, they included, alongside German prisoners of war, a handful of spies and a small number of genuine sympathizers with Hitler and Mussolini, a larger contingent consisting of Jewish refugees, who had sought a haven in the United Kingdom from the extermination threatening them in continental Europe. Limentani, himself a Jew and among those persecuted under Mussolinis 1938 racial decrees, had been welcomed in Cambridge, where his work on Dante was already well known. Off the west coast of Ireland, on the first leg of its voyage to Canada, the Arandora Star was torpedoed by a German U-boat. While a few passengers were able to take to the lifeboats, others like Uberto Limentani jumped from the sinking ship into the sea, but over five hundred among the deportees were drowned. Years later, someone asked the Serena Professor of Italian, as he had by then become, how he managed to survive. I began reciting a poem to myself, Alessandro Manzonis ode on the death of Napoleon Bonaparte, Il Cinque Maggio [The Fifth of May] which they made me learn at school in Italy. When I reached a certain line I realized something was wrong. Had I left something out, mistaken a word or muddled the syntax? As I trod water, waiting for a rescue if it should ever come, I thought Ill look up the text when I get back to Cambridge and check the reference. That was what kept me going. An hour or so later we were pulled out of the sea. The poem which, however indirectly, contributed to Limentanis survival is the work of the only Italian literary figure whom his countrymen consider worthy of being mentioned in the same breath as Dante. In his own lifetime Alessandro Manzoni (1785-1873) earned for himself a degree of respect most writers would envy, the kind of reverence normally accorded to champions of national freedom, transcendent spiritual leaders or major pioneers of social reform. When he died at the age of eighty-nine, a day of national mourning was declared throughout Italy. Schools and universities were closed and theatres kept dark. A massive funeral cort Details ISBN0375712348 Author Jonathan Keates Language English Year 2013 ISBN-10 0375712348 ISBN-13 9780375712340 Format Hardcover Publication Date 2013-09-17 Short Title BETROTHED Media Book Birth 1785 Death 1873 Translator Archibald Colquhoun DEWEY FIC Country of Publication United States AU Release Date 2013-09-17 NZ Release Date 2013-09-17 US Release Date 2013-09-17 UK Release Date 2013-09-17 Place of Publication New York Subtitle Introduction by Jonathan Keates Pages 648 Publisher Random House USA Inc Series Everymans Library Classics Series Imprint Everymans Library USA Audience General We’ve got this At The Nile, if you’re looking for it, we’ve got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items – you’re bound to find what you want, at a price you’ll love! 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